Comment 1 for bug 760902

On Friday 15,April,2011 01:00 AM, Michael Martin-Smucker wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: banshee
>
> The Library Watcher in Banshee is a relatively new feature, and it still
> lacks a good deal of polish. In its current state, the problems it
> causes far outweigh the benefit it provides. In fact, I'm fairly
> certain that in vanilla Banshee, this extension is disabled by default
> because of some of these issues.[1] I would strongly encourage the
> Ubuntu folks to disable this extension by default in the version of
> Banshee that ships with Natty.
>
> An overview of the issues:
>
> - The Library Watcher has been known to cause very high CPU usage and severe memory leaks[3]
> - When importing from CDs[2], devices[3], and even regular folders[4], the Library Watcher leads to duplicate imports
> - What's worse, when importing with the Library Watcher + the "Copy Files to Folders" option, some files may be missed altogether.[5][4]
>
> In my opinion, having a "watched directory" is a desirable feature, but
> much less important than the ability to accurately import music from
> CDs, devices, and folders.
>
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638939
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617687
> [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638788
> [4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/banshee/+bug/760565
> [5] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632956

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I'm fine with disabling the Library Watcher extension, though it was the UNR
team who enabled it by default, IIRC. Didrocks, are you okay with this?

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Loong Jin